From Marlex Human Capital, we are cooperating with an important international engineering company, focused on electronics & software research and development and committed to develop complex and strategical devices for the automotive key players in the market. Their current need is to find a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join the SW Barcelona’s team.

¿What will be your mission in the company?

The selected profile will take responsibility for…

• Participate in system architecture definition at early project phases of pure research projects with non-fixed requirements at project kick-off.


• Understand globally system requirements and system architecture to perform and appropriate software design.


• Carry out the SW development to ensure the technical and functional feasibility of the products giving support to the project teams.


• Research, design and write new software programs and develop existing programs.


• Generate accurate technical manuals of the delivered software and operational documentation, as well as the required SW design delivery documents.


• Ensure the development and prototypes delivery regarding the defined plans with the client.


• Technical support within area of expertise to other team members.


• Perform research into new technologies, ideas and trends within your area of expertise and attend relevant conferences or seminars.


• Participate in demos of team capabilities to company management and to customers with creation of prototype setups.


• Generate accurate periodic reporting of progress and blocking points.

The selected profile is offered:

• Opportunity to be closer to main market trend in automotive market within a company working as pure R&D partner for main European OEM.


• International environment and international mobility options available.


• Professional career development plan and opportunity to further expand your training.


• Regular team building activities with specific company budget.


• Hybrid work, 2-3 days per week in the office depending on the task.


• Variable salary according to profile.


• Social benefits: private health insurance and 30 working days as holidays.


• Opportunity to participate in the growth of a new engineering team from the ground up and close integration within the development team working in close contact with experienced engineers.

You are the perfect candidate if...

• At least 4-5+ years of experience in embedded software development.


• Experience in real-time systems design and programming.


• Experience in low level debugging with tools like Trace32 or similar.


• Basic electronics understanding is mandatory – capability to understand schematics and use an oscilloscope during low-level debugging (register level).


• Experience in tools like JIRA, Confluence, SVN or git and continuous integration tools like Jenkins.


• Experiencie in Python or Bash.


• Experience in AGILE or Scrum development environments.


• Knowledge of building tools for embedded Linux systems (Yocto, BuildRoot, OpenWRT) or experience in builds starting from desktop distributions is desirable.


• Knowledge of different communication bus interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, CAND-FD, LIN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet, SerDes…) is desirable.


• Fluency in English is a must, all the customers are from outside Spain.


• Good team first player with strong analytical and investigation skills to work in research projects with new technologies in early design phases.